![]() The P2450h also crushes blacks so that in the "Meet the Parents" scene, certain dark details of Neytiri's father's hair can't be seen whereas on the PX2370, the details are clearly noticeable. The issue also makes the daytime environments look less natural than they did on the PX2370, as the bright sunlight looks muted on the P2450h. Because of the tint issue, character's faces look green, making most denizens of Pandora look as though they're going to be sick at any moment, especially the humans. To test the SyncMaster P2450h's movie performance, we watched the Blu-ray version of "Avatar." The display's green push issue we saw in our DiplayMate tests was evident when watching the movie. When surfing the Web and other general tasks, the P2450h's green push doesn't affect the image quality as much, especially when compared with its movie performance. On the P2450h, text is clearly readable down to a font size 6.8 points, and doesn't have any egregious color-tracking problems with black fonts on a white background. Finally, in our Dark Screen test, we found that the display's backlight bleeds on the top and bottom edges of the screen. This improved the picture only marginally as the green tint is still noticeable. We tried to alleviate the tint by dialing up the Blue setting from the default 50 to 67. In our Color Tracking test, we noticed that the monitor has a distinct green tint. This indicates that the monitor has a high black level. In our Black Level test, we found that the P2450H crushes very dark grays to the point that a level four gray-four levels above true black-is the darkest color the monitor could distinguish from true black. The display gets a composite score of 75 on CNET Labs' DisplayMate-based performance tests, which is many points below the Samsung PX2370's score of 97. We tested the Samsung SyncMaster P2450h via a DVI connection to a PC running Windows Vista. Picture options: Brightness, Contrast, SharpnessĬolor controls: Color temperature, RGB controls One feature we like is that the preset menu is only a button press away. ![]() Though not as intuitive to use as Dell's brilliantly designed OSDs, the P2450H's OSD has only a small learning curve. Each preset changes the color temperature and brightness of the display with the intent of them being appropriate to the task at hand. There are seven presets including Custom, Text, Internet, Game, Sport, Movie, and Dynamic Contrast. You can also set the color tone to Cool, Normal, Warm, or Custom, and change the red, green, and blue attributes individually. Its picture options consist of brightness, contrast, and sharpness. The Up and Down buttons also double as brightness and preset shortcut buttons, respectively. The button array consists of a Menu button, an Up and Down button, an Enter button, and an Auto button. The P2450h's onscreen display is the same one Samsung used on the SyncMaster XL2370. Calibrating the P2450h in a dark room can be cumbersome, as the nature of the touch areas require pinpoint accuracy unfortunately, the white dots are difficult to see in a dark room. The labels are the result of an impressive refraction technique that makes it appear as if they're floating, 3D-like, within the glass. The actual button labels, which glow red, appear below the dots within the edge of the glass overlay at the bottom of the bezel. On the P2450h, Samsung forgoes buttons in favor of what we refer to as "touch areas." Samsung denotes each with a small white dot, and each area has a different function. Also, the alcove where they reside is narrow, making it frustrating when connecting or disconnecting cables. The company tucked the connections too deeply into the panel, making them difficult to see without lifting the monitor. The display has VGA, DVI, and HDMI connection options however, Samsung placed them in an awkward location. However, when the panel is at 90 degrees, we don't believe it to be in much danger of toppling, even if knocked hard. The display is moderately wobbly when you knock it from the sides and you can easily knock it over when the panel is tilted.
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